Table of Contents

List of Plates References, Abbreviations and Symbols INTRODUCTION THIS EDITION: PRINCIPLES AND CONVENTIONS THE TEXTS Letter of advice to the Queen (1584) A discourse vpon the commission of Bridewell (c.1587) The misfortunes of Arthur: dumb shows (1588) Reading on advowsons (1588) An advertisement touching private censure (c.1589) An advertisement touching the controversies of the Church of England (1589) A letter of advice to Fulke Greville (c.1589) On the religious policies of the Queen ('letter to Critoy') (c.1589) Tribuit or giving that which is due (1591) Magnanimitie or heroicall vertue (c.1592) An aduertisement towching seditious writing (c.1593) Certaine obseruations made vppon a libell (1593) Epistle to the Reader (1593) A true report of the detestable treason intended by Doctor Roderigo Lopez (1594) Argument in Chudleigh's case (1594) Memorandum on the Queen's safety (1594) Promus or formularies of elegance (1594-1595) Orations at Graies Inne revells (1594-1595) Letters of advice to the earl of Rutland Essex's device (1595) First letter of advice to the earl of Essex (1596) For the earl of Sussex at the tilt (1596) THE COMMENTARIES APPENDICES Glossary Select Bibliography Index to the Commentary

About the Author

Alan Stewart is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and International Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London. He is the author of biographies of Francis Bacon (with Lisa Jardine, 1998), Philip Sidney (2003) and James VI and I (2003), and of Shakespeare's Letters (2008).

Reviews

The level of scholarship on display is deeply impressive; not only has Stewart obviously spent a considerable amount of time in archive and library collections, but he has also provided remarkably detailed commentaries accompanying each work ... a monumental achievement.
*James Everest, The British Journal for the History of Science*

a major scholarly project ... scholars will be grateful for the vast amount of labour it embodies.
*Keith Thomas, London Review of Books*

thorough and systematic ... The editors' conclusions and educated guesses stand as the result of open inquiry, metholodical research and orientation towards the guiding star of this collection: the editors' impressive familiarity with Bacon's known writings.
*John C. Briggs, Times Literary Supplement*

Stewart's edition allows an examination of the kind of writing that Bacon developed in his early pieces, which played a role in shaping his natural philosophical work ... the Oxford Francis Bacon I reminds us that Bacon's significance for the history of science may lie as much in the way in which he wrote as in what he wrote.
*James Everest, Intellectual History Review*

superbly edited
*Markku Peltonen, Renaissance Quarterly*

The level of scholarship on display is deeply impressive; not only has Stewart obviously spent a considerable amount of time in archive and library collections, but he has also provided remarkably detailed commentaries accompanying each work. This edition will be considered definitive until new witnesses are (as they inevitably will be) uncovered.
*James Everest, British Journal for the History of Science*